Terror Preservation
rumors are buzzing
that the brains at Uppsala Univ., Sweden,
have stumbled upon a way to eliminate
unwanted memories---that
the attempt at getting rid of horrifying
memories is now becoming reality,
as shocks of electricity get thumped into
the heads of human lab rats in question,
so as to stop the hardwired formation of
fears before they solidify in proteins &
this has got anybody who has flipped
through Loriga’s masterpiece,
“Tokyo Doesn’t Love Us Anymore,”
wondering if these scientists had sat
down with the book & used it as a
manual---
for this isn’t how it should be,
after all, we need the preservation of
terror, we need to have memories of
horror in order to remind us of
the balance that is life---
certainly, if one puts their hand on a
burner & fries it, but now they can erase
the memory of doing so, said individual
may very well do it again---for
wouldn’t it be so easy to send soldiers off
to war who wouldn’t remember the
horror?---they’d be perfect human
machines, killers without memory, killers
without guilt &
killers without a need to even try &
compartmentalize what murderous deeds
they have committed with their very hands
in the name of nationalism or
patriotism or whatever ****ing excuse
one can pull off the shelf at any given
time.
Copyright © Andrew Delapruch | Year Posted 2012
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